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Behind this story of Godfrey St. Peter, a man who, despite his successes, has at mid-career experienced a profound disappointment with life, is the fierce story of how he decides to continue living despite his disappointment. Sandwiched between St. Peter's stories is the thrilling tale of his one brilliant student, Tom Outland, who discovers the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde. Profound and disturbing, The professor's house has taken its place as one...
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is still very much alive, and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. But by the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance....
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"In the anonymous office park of a modern software company, whip-smart software engineer Henry Hurt is a man in the middle: of life, of career, and of self-assessment. Mired in his corporate responsibilities, Henry's deathless office existence is torpedoed by losing his mother. Overcome by "the pall," Henry seeks escape in a quest for love and purpose occasioned by a crisis in his company's fortunes. Dodging an Iago-like rival, he finds love with...
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"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club comes a hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances
When Elizabeth Mooney escaped the shame of her "white trash" family to marry the crown prince of her small town, Howell Whittington, she never dreamed that thirty years later, she'd end up trapped in a loveless marriage to the cruel banker who's foreclosing on all her friends. Then Howe has a stroke sitting up in church,...
8) Momma's man
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 98 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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One of the most acclaimed films of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Azazel Jacobs' third feature is both a tribute to his parents (and to the lost New York of his childhood) and an acutely perceptive, deeply personal take on a universal experience: the fear of growing up.
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English
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"Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick--a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers--putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town"--
After Nessa James's husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she's left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties,...
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Fiftysomething and still clueless Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. Among his problems are his rebelling teenage daughter, a gravely ill father, a work protege after his job, and his wife is losing her patience and his own judgment is sinking fast. It's going to take a bizarre twist of fate and some twisted wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" to help Leo navigate the murky waters of middle age and turn his midlife crisis into a midlife...
12) Arthur Newman
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Divorced, disconnected from his son and dissatisfied with his love life, Wallace Avery decides to make radical changes. He walks away from his old life, forges a new identity and hits the road as Arthur Newman to start over. However, Arthur's road trip towards a new life is interrupted by the arrival of the beautiful but fragile Michaela "Mike" Fitzgerald , who is also trying to leave her past behind. Romance blossoms as the unexpected couple infiltrates...
13) Arthur Newman
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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After suffering a midlife crisis, a man fakes his own death to assume a new identity and goes on a road trip with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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Bernadette Fox, a loving mom, becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette's leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alex is trying to deal with a midlife crisis, while feeling caught in the middle of his familial obligations. While successful, Alex sometimes feels as if he's under the shadow of his father, Mitchell, a successful attorney. Mitchell has recently survived a stroke, and Alex and Mitchell want to mend their relationship while there's still time.
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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A married man going through a mid-life crisis attempts to woo women to his mother's empty apartment in hopes of having an affair, but things don't go as planned.
17) Flying by
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : col., sd. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A real estate developer goes to his 25th high school reunion without his wife, and finds his old teenage band playing. They get him up on stage for a couple of songs, and convince him come to a rehearsal. His wife is outraged that he played. His daughter thinks it's kind of cool. His Mother, in a retirement home, encourages him to enjoy life. He feels some temporary relief from the pressures of business complexities and the stress of marriage tensions....
19) City slickers
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1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about three men friends who are going through mid-life crises. They decide that the answer to their malaise is a fantasy vacation out West where they can play cowboy on a cattle drive.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean, Rene?, Janine: two men and a woman from different generations and different backgrounds, whose paths meet at a crisis point in mid-life, faced with disappointment and frustration, all three muse about a legendary "uncle in America", a guardian angel who gives them their hearts' desires and tells them exactly what they want to hear.
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